NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

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bearophile wrote:
> On a more general note, I know many professionals in other 
> fields that never write small articles about what they are 
> doing. So is it normal just for programmers to write (small) 
> articles like this? I write them, and other programmers I know 
> write similar things. Maybe to program you need (among other 
> things) active linguistic centers in the brain :-)

Why would it matter what is "normal"? Normality is constantly 
changing anyways. Or are you just curios if it's been common 
practice in the past?